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title: So Roland went with twenty thousand men well armed and fell upon the… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: So Roland went with twenty thousand men well armed and fell upon the Saracens, and took from them spoils and prisoners, and overcame their King in single combat, bringing him back to Paris and delivering him to the King. Who acts: Roland. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Coming of Roland, sentence 25

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So Roland went with twenty thousand men well armed and fell upon the Saracens, and took from them spoils and prisoners, and overcame their King in single combat, bringing him back to Paris and delivering him to the King.

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**Who acts:** Roland · **What happens:** go, fall, take, spoil, overcome, bring · **To what, where:** Saracens, King

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This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, The Coming of Roland. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Roland), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg75339:6:25
# text = So Roland went with twenty thousand men well armed and fell upon the Saracens, and took from them spoils and prisoners, and overcame their King in single combat, bringing him back to Paris and delivering him to the King.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	Roland	Roland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	compound	_	_
6	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
8	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	9	advmod	_	_
9	armed	armed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
12	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	Saracens	Saracen	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	advcl	_	_
18	from	from	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obl	_	_
20	spoils	spoil	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	prisoners	prisoner	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	overcame	overcome	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
26	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	combat	combat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
32	bringing	bring	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	25	advcl	_	_
33	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	obj	_	_
34	back	back	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
35	to	to	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	Paris	Paris	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
38	delivering	deliver	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	32	conj	_	_
39	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	obj	_	_
40	to	to	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | Roland |  |  |  |  | with thousand men | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with man=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **fall** | past | Roland *not said here* |  |  | the Saracens |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon saracen=Location |
| 3 | **take** | past |  |  |  |  |  | from Saracens *= saracen* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent from they=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **spoil** | present |  |  |  |  |  | prisoners *conj* | vn entity\_specific\_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **overcome** | past | Roland *not said here* | Saracens's King |  |  |  | in single combat | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot king=Theme in combat=Attribute |
| 6 | **bring** | gerund | Roland *not said here* |  | King |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination |
| 7 | **deliver** | gerund | Roland *not said here* | King | the King |  |  |  | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to king=Destination |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Project Gutenberg book 75339 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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